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************** - PC-FORMS - - (The Electronic Forms Library) **************** ******* PC-FORMS AND PC-LIBRARY PROGRAMS ******** Evaluation Copy ************ ** COPYRIGHT 1990-93 William W. Blackledge ** ** The programs, libraries and documentation are furnished as confidential ** ** trade secret information under an obligation of the user not to disclose ** ** or copy them without the owner's express consent. Permission is granted ** ** to copy them for use in the user's own computer for a 30 day free evalu- ** ** ation period and for the files to be copied, as received, for evaluation ** ** by others. The Users' manuals may be printed for evaluation purposes ** ** but not for distribution. ** ** ** ** Information concerning registration will be displayed each time the PC- ** ** FORMS program is run before registration. ** ** _______ ** ** The Owner is: ____|__ | (R) ** ** William W. Blackledge --| | |------------------- ** ** 3704 Edgewater Drive | ____|__ | Association of ** ** Oklahoma City, OK 73116 | | |_| Shareware ** ** Telephone (405) 840-3563 |__| o | Professionals ** ** -----| | |--------------------- ** ** |___|___| MEMBER ** ****************************************************************************** The following is a list of the text libraries available now: LIBRARY DESCRIPTION Directory: LETTERS ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- LTRADR - Forms of Address for Letters to Various Dignitaries LTRBNS - 219 Business Letters Regarding Matters other than Financial LTRFNL - 76 Letters Regarding Accounts, Credit and Collections LTRSAL - 30 Letters for the Sales Department of a Business ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY DESCRIPTION Directory: LEGAL ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- ASSIGN - Assignments of Contract Rights and Other Interests. AUDLTR - Lawyer's Response to Request for Auditor Letter. BILSAL - Bill of Sale for Personal Property. CREDIT - Collection Notices and Letters. DEEDS - Warranty Deeds Conveying Title to Real Property. EMPLOY - Employment Agreements and Related Documents. LEARN - Learning Demonstration for PC-FORMS. LEASES - Leases of Real and Personal Property. LICENS - License Agreements for Software & Hunting/Fishing. NOTES - Promissory Notes including Installment Notes. REALTY - Contracts for Sale or Exchange of Real Property. SALBNS - Documents for Sale of a Business including Bulk Transfers. SALGDS - Documents and Notices for Sales of Goods under the U.C.C. SETTLE - Settlement Agreements and General Release from Liability. TITLES - Title Opinions on Real Estate Properties. WILLS - Last Will and Testament with Various Trusts & Living Wills. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY DESCRIPTION Directory: ORGANIZE ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- AGENCY - Powers of Attorney and Other Agency Agreements. CORPN - Forms for Incorporation & Keeping the Minute Book INDCON - Independent Contractors including Attorneys and Brokers. PARTNR - Agreements for General and Limited Partnerships & Joint Ventures. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIBRARY DESCRIPTION Directory: PLEAD ------ ------------------------------------------------------------------- DIVORC - Divorce Pleadings and Related Documents - Oklahoma. PROBAT - Probate Pleadings and Related Documents - Oklahoma. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Press <ESCAPE> at the end of any screen display to return to the Program. *************************** ** GENERAL PROGRAM HELP ** *************************** The PC-FORMS Document Assembly System consists of two computer programs written to permit use of the user's own choice of words in computer-prepared documents. The programs are called PC-FORMS (pcfm.exe) and PC-LIBRARY (pclb.exe). These programs may be automatically linked with WordPerfect, WordStar, Microsoft Word, VDE, PC-Write or FriendlyWriter by placing the program files in the same directory with one of those word processors and linked with those, or other, word processors using the Setup Menu. The PC-FORMS program lets you select, from a series of text menus, sections of text to be included in a document. If the text contains variable names for information needed to complete the document, you will be prompted to enter responses which you want to replace those variable names. After all variable name prompts for a particular section of text have been answered the revised text is displayed for the user's acceptance or rejection. For each document prepared the program produces a proof sheet file showing the text selections made and the variable responses entered for that doc- ument. This proof sheet has the name of the document and the suffix ".PRF". The PC-LIBRARY program assembles files containing the Text Indexes, a Text Library, a Variable Prompt List and/or a Variable Help List from a PC-FORMS text library. If requested, it will print these lists as files are being assembled or they may be printed later with a word processor. These library lists may be used to collect information from clients and to provide in- structions to a secretary for preparation of the completed document. PC-LIBRARY also may be used to generate the variable file for a PC-FORMS text library. Before preparing the Text Library listing the program creates a variable file for that library if one does not exist. It will then ask the user to enter a prompt for any variable name for which there is no prompt in the variable file. As it reads and displays the text selections it inserts a numbered blank line in the text for each variable name, numbers the prompt for that variable with the same number and stores the revised text in the Text Library file. The PC-LIBRARY program also accumulates index listings of the text headings in the library in numeric and alphabetical sequence and adds those listings to the index section of the variable file if the user asks for it to be up- dated. If the user has the variable file updated the program makes a backup copy of the existing variable file with the suffix .BAK. The PC-FORMS programs may be linked with WordPerfect, WordStar, Word, VDE, PC-Write or the FriendlyWriter word processing program by placing them in the same directory with one of those programs. The program to convert from the WordStar 3.3 format must be in the same directory. These are: for Word- Perfect - CONVERT.EXE; for Microsoft Word - WS_RTF.EXE and for Friendly- Writer, FWCNV.EXE, by the author of the PC-FORMS system. They may be linked with other word processors by using the Setup Menu. The program message files FMHELP.MSG and ORDER.MSG must be available in the same directory as the PC-FORMS and PC-LIBRARY programs. If you install the system on a hard disk it is recommended that you copy the text libraries to directories with names similar to those shown in the lists, above, or to a single directory called PCFORMS. Text Libraries may be placed in directories named to reflect the types of forms available in them or may all be placed in the same directory. The programs are capable of displaying 80 text library names on your CRT screen. When the programs are started without entering a library name all of the text libraries available in the current working directory will be displayed in alphabetical order. The programs must be run from the directory where the text library you are using is located. You may specify a different directory for the document file you are creating. Just include the file specification (directory path) in the document file name. PC-FORMS will load the document file and your word processor from that directory. THE DOS "PATH" COMMAND MUST INCLUDE THE DIRECTORY IN WHICH THE PROGRAMS AND, IF LINKED, WHERE YOUR WORD PROCESSOR PROGRAM IS LOCATED. Enter "path" at the DOS prompt to check this. The program may be run from the same directory as the library files without being linked to your word processor. In that case you will be requested to enter the output mode (D)ocument, (N)on-Document or (R)ight-Justified, as explained below. *** PC-FORMS START-UP *** The PC-FORMS program is called PCFM.EXE. The program is run by entering 'PCFM' at the MS-DOS prompt. You may also enter the form name, the output file specification and a mode character 'D', 'N' or 'R' to indicate Document, Non-document or Right-Justified output mode. For example, any of the following are correct start-up entries: C:\PCFORMS>pcfm C:\PCFORMS>pcfm wills C:\PCFORMS>pcfm wills testwill.doc C:\PCFORMS>pcfm wills testwill.doc d The program will ask the user to enter any of the necessary information not supplied. After program start-up you may elect to use either single-line or double-line spacing for all, or any part of the form. In Document mode the text is revised to be printed right-justified using the WordStar, Word or WordPerfect word processing programs with printers which support microjustification. This document file may be converted to another word processor format by using any conversion program capable of converting WordStar Version 3.3 Document files to the desired format. When linked with one of these programs a Document mode file is produced and the conversion is done automatically. In Document mode, dot commands for WordStar are sent through to the document file. When linked with the VDE, PC-WRITE or FriendlyWriter program a non-document file is produced. In Non-Document mode the program replaces the variable names with the responses and then revises the text within paragraphs by removing any extra spaces between words and all but two spaces after sen- tences. Each line is terminated at the last space or hyphen immediately before reaching the right margin marker in the current format line. This results in the text having a ragged right margin but without extra spaces between words or sentences. This file can be converted to the Friendly- Writer format by using the 'FWCNV.EXE' program. When linked, the Friendly- Writer conversion is done automatically. In Right-Justified mode the text in the Non-document mode output is revised by inserting extra spaces to cause it to print right-justified on printers which do not support micro-justification. In both Non-document and Right-Justified mode the program produces a plain ASCII file without WordStar formatting commands. These files can be printed using the PC-DOS OR MS-DOS print command or most word processing programs. *** PC-LIBRARY START-UP *** The PC-LIBRARY program is called PCLB.EXE. This program is run by entering 'PCLB' at the MS-DOS prompt. You may also enter the form name. For example, either of the following are correct start-up entries: C:\PCFORMS>pclb C:\PCFORMS>pclb wills PC-LIBRARY can produce ASCII files which may be printed using the DOS Print command or files compatible with a word processing program. If you use your word processor, you may need to widen your margins or compress your print to print some of them as they appear on the 80-column screen. *** PC-FORMS PROGRAM DISPLAY SCREENS *** From the Master Menu you can display the current Text Selection Menu. Before doing so you may want to review the Text Indexes of the text library by sel- ecting No. 3. Entering a Text Menu number (the number before the decimal point) will switch you to the Text Selection Screen for that menu. Or you can enter a complete Text Selection Number to select a particular section of text. You may review the text alternatives by selecting them and then using the Escape Key to return to the menu. The Escape Key may be used from the Text Selection Screen to return to the Master Menu if you wish to change the line spacing, go to the Text Indexes, or display the output document. If a text section is appended to your document its index listings will be highlighted in the menu listings. At the top of the PC-FORMS program display screens is a line in inverse vid- eo displaying reminders of the special commands available from that screen. These screens will appear in the following sequence as you select text and enter variable responses to be included in your final document. Special commands available from each screen are described below: MASTER MENU - No Special Commands TEXT SELECTION MENU - (N)ext - to proceed to the next menu. - (P)revious - to return to the previous menu. - (ESC)Menu - to return to the Master Menu. INPUT VARIABLES SCREEN - (>)Center Response - to center your response on the page. - (ESC)Text Menu - to return to the Text Selection Menu. - (?)Help - to display Variable Response help. Note: You may skip the input of a variable response for any Variable Name (such as an unused address line) by entering a <RETURN>. REVISED TEXT SCREEN - (R)eject text - to reject the revised text and variable responses. - <RETURN> - to accept the revised text and append it to the document being prepared. GLOBAL variable names consist of alphanumeric characters enclosed in curly braces. The responses for them are stored by PC-FORMS and automatically substituted for the same variable name appearing in later sections of text. Responses for these variables are stored in the proof file of the document being assembled. Local variable responses may be changed by the user for each section of text in which they appear. LOCAL variable names begin with non-alphanumeric characters. The latest re- sponses for the following four SPECIAL variables are also saved in the proof file of the Document being assembled to be reloaded if you later append to the document. These variable names are used for the following purposes: 1st Special Local or Global Variable Char Program Response > - Automatically inserts a ">" character to center the user response. (Indicated by -> on the variable input screen) 0 or | - Adjusts the number of spaces after the variable response to keep information on the same line in the same relative position as it was on that line in the text library. & - Displays the user's previous response to the Variable Prompt, and permits the user to retain it or change it. ~ - Displays a 'Standard Response' for the Variable Name and permits the user to retain it or change it. Regular LOCAL variable names are used in sections of text where the response should not be inserted, automatically, in later sections of text. The re- sponse to these variable names is NOT SAVED in the proof file of the docu- ment being assembled. These variable names are used, as follows: 1st Regular Local Variable Char Program Response ? - Always displays the prompt for the Variable Name, since the previous response was not stored. ! - Displays the user's previous response to the Variable Prompt, and permits the user to retain it or change it. (For the "!" character you can substitute any non-alphanumeric character other than one of those listed above.) Sections of repeatable text (such as gifts of personal property in the wills library) will contain only LOCAL variable names for which the responses can be changed each time the text is appended to the document. Detailed instructions are provided in the program documentation to permit the user to modify the text files or to develop his or her own files for use with these programs using the PC-LIBRARY program. These files are ASCII files which can be prepared using any word processing program capable of producing such a file. Certain rules must be followed to enable the PC- FORMS program to display the menus, prompt for variables, insert the re- sponses and revise the text correctly. ========================= End of General Program Help =======================